The "What Game Was That?" Thread

On November 29 2008 22:48 Ki_Do wrote:
i remember of a game where u was some kind of rat who got jets in the back and fight with a sword, it was insanely fast paced i think it was for super famicon

On November 30 2008 02:55 JeeJee wrote:
i think this was a flash game.. but uhh
you either control a dragon or a guy on a dragon (really tiny), and fly around and.. kill other dragons (AI). there's a bunch of levels that get more complicated (eventually there's stuff that kills you i think.. i.e. lava etc).. you could get chain points (i think you kill other dragons by bouncing on them? or possibly some sort of bullets that bounce.. so if you bounce off one into another, you'd get extra points)
my memory fails =(

On November 30 2008 03:26 jimmybim wrote:

Easier one is a NES game with the light gun i think you shot mostly stationary targets such as a naked chick on a torture rack and other gory stuff like that.

On November 30 2008 03:09 MTF wrote:


That sounds kind of like Joust. Though I've never seen a version with dragons, always ostriches.

On November 30 2008 03:55 travis wrote:
for the longest time ive been trying to remember a game, but my memories of it are so very, very limited.

it was an old game, for the regular nintendo. I think you were a kid in the game (i am not sure). it was a side scroller. you had a ton of different abilities you could use, or maybe you were transforming into things. one of the abilities/transformations involved a tornado.

I know that is almost nothing to go off of, so good luck.

On November 30 2008 02:33 Yuljan wrote:
Im searching for a game too. You have a helicopter and fly up and down and shoot things. Sorry for this description if anyone knows it it would be helpful. Its a flash game I think.

On November 30 2008 03:55 travis wrote:
for the longest time ive been trying to remember a game, but my memories of it are so very, very limited.

it was an old game, for the regular nintendo. I think you were a kid in the game (i am not sure). it was a side scroller. you had a ton of different abilities you could use, or maybe you were transforming into things. one of the abilities/transformations involved a tornado.

I know that is almost nothing to go off of, so good luck.

On November 30 2008 10:30 PanoRaMa wrote:
2: I can't remember much but it was a co-op as well, and you can call for help like summons. Protagonists were humans in a contemporary/urban setting, and summons would be like you can summon a police car off-screen to shoot a rocket launcher into your screen etc. it was crazy. You can get pipes and beat the shit out of people also. I'm inclined to believe this was a very popular, well known game.

On November 30 2008 10:30 PanoRaMa wrote:
Can anyone help me with these?

Two games from genesis:

1: A 2-player co-op game wherein there were a lot of bosses, the final boss iirc had an 8-pack and on the way to him you would like fly upwards/vertically. Protagonists were humans iirc, and I THINK you could have a variety of guns i'm really not sure about anything. It was really contra-like in gameplay, I guess it could be contra but i think the actual contextual setting of this game is a bit different. OH YEAH there was a dragon that was made up of many parts and youd have to shoot his head to damage him but he'd constantly go underneath the screen etc (kinda like underwater sea dragon enemy in megaman). sorry for my shitty description

On November 30 2008 03:44 Syxygy wrote:
Another game but slightly newer, also on the Mac, was where you started off in a carnival and win a doll from a shooting gallery or something but then you wake up on a beach and have to solve puzzles.

On November 30 2008 07:45 GeneralStan wrote:


The basic premise sounds very much like Defender. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defender_(arcade_game)

On December 01 2008 00:03 Essence wrote:
Well, I will give this thread a shot, I haven't been able to find this game for a decade now.

It was a soccer game for some sort of Nintendo IIRC where you could only play as Japan. You controlled one guy the rest was on AI. Each of your players as well the opposing teams had a special super shot, like transforming the ball into something. The whole game was really cartoonish with all sorts of funny stuff (on certain fields lightning would randomly strike players, or a tornado blow them off the field, or idle players sinking in the mud etc.)

The game consisted of 2 phases, first you could play 4 teams of each 4 regions (something like Asia, Africa, America, Europe) and if you have won enough games, you got to the world cup.

Could somebody help me find it? I used to have this game on a console thing but it doesn't work anymore.

On December 01 2008 03:40 PanoRaMa wrote:
thanks guys yeah I think the first one is a bit more obscure or I just suck ass at explaining it (it's not gunstar heroes =[)

On November 30 2008 14:07 L wrote:
I'm thinking of a game in which you control a group of robots through various levels, getting strongers as you go on. You could pick up kinda metroid-like power ups that would let you revisit older levels and find other power-ups as well. Midway through the game you lose a robot to an explosion in a tunnel, but it gets replaced.

Its 8 or 16 bit, but my guess is that its on Genesis/Masterdrive.

On November 30 2008 03:55 travis wrote:
for the longest time ive been trying to remember a game, but my memories of it are so very, very limited.

it was an old game, for the regular nintendo. I think you were a kid in the game (i am not sure). it was a side scroller. you had a ton of different abilities you could use, or maybe you were transforming into things. one of the abilities/transformations involved a tornado.

I know that is almost nothing to go off of, so good luck.

On November 30 2008 03:38 jimmybim wrote:
Sorry one more. Adventure game has a cartoon style. One of the last puzzles has you floating in an abyss or limbo and you have to use a bagpipe to blow yourself around to find an exit.

On December 01 2008 07:10 .MistiK wrote:
I'm trying to get the name of a SNES game. I think that it was very similar to geometry wars, but with robots/people instead of shapes. i remember that sometimes civilians walk around the map, but I can't remember what they're for. I can only remember that i really wanted to catch them

On December 01 2008 07:48 NotSupporting wrote:
Anyone: an old rts game that is like black and white but not really and alot older.

On December 01 2008 10:22 thedeadhaji wrote:
great thread yo~

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I was wondering what game this is - Made around '90-'93'ish, although I'm sure there's many iterations of it. You clear level after level, where you try to get a ball from one part of screen to the other, by placing/constructing contraptions on the screen so that when you press "start", the ball starts to drop, rolls along your stuff you placed, or if you placed a spring it bounces, etc and the goal is to "design" the parts for the level so that the ball ends up @ the goal. I'm not sure if it was a ball but I remember that the object of the game was this design process of placing these thingies, and the only thing that makes sense would be a ball.

Think of it like a rudimentary physics simulator-ish thingy. It was pretty colorful iirc, reds and blues, yellows etc. I played it on the mac but I'm sure there was a PC version as well.

On December 01 2008 10:22 thedeadhaji wrote:
great thread yo~

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I was wondering what game this is - Made around '90-'93'ish, although I'm sure there's many iterations of it. You clear level after level, where you try to get a ball from one part of screen to the other, by placing/constructing contraptions on the screen so that when you press "start", the ball starts to drop, rolls along your stuff you placed, or if you placed a spring it bounces, etc and the goal is to "design" the parts for the level so that the ball ends up @ the goal. I'm not sure if it was a ball but I remember that the object of the game was this design process of placing these thingies, and the only thing that makes sense would be a ball.

Think of it like a rudimentary physics simulator-ish thingy. It was pretty colorful iirc, reds and blues, yellows etc. I played it on the mac but I'm sure there was a PC version as well.

On December 01 2008 00:14 ShloobeR wrote:
Ok... uh... Let's try this out (I haven't been able to answer many yet but this game is OBSCURE)

Ok so it's an old PC game, shareware I think, looked early 90s, I think it was called 'Knights of X' or 'Warriors of x'. Basically it was a beat em up game (1v1, 2v2), the graphics were awful, but all teh chracters were pretty different, and the highlight of the game was this big 32 player bloodbath thing which made absolutely no sense at all. Characters included floating eyes, knights with swords, horses... etc... It was sideview, but your character could move up/down (similar to streets of rage)

Ehr... I really want to find this game again. If it's any help I got it from a CD compilation called '2001 game'

On December 01 2008 08:01 SirTea wrote:


Smash Tv or Robotron?

On December 01 2008 10:46 iNCuBuS_ wrote:
How about the game I played on the computer, definitely mid-late 1990s. It was a "detective" game where you are in a building and you have a flashlight and have to find clues to figure out which ghost was the culprit or something. There were a few different ghosts, and one of them looked like a paint roller or steam roller on the bottom and humanoid (I think) on top.
I cant remember anything else, but it was pretty bad ass when I was younger and playing it over my friends house
If you find a potential answer to this could you PM it to me? Itll be easier to track it down that way. Thanks!

On December 01 2008 10:40 .MistiK wrote:


It was Robotron, thanks

On December 01 2008 10:29 brambolius wrote:


Incredible machine

On December 01 2008 10:38 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:
I'm looking for this side-scrolling (as in horizontal) space shooter PC game from the mid-nineties. It ran in DOS, I think. You could choose between a red spread shot and a blue concentrated shot, you could get little orbiting satellite things, and you could buy upgrades and stuff, I think. The ships had a sort of beveled look to them, and the levels were set on a black space-and-stars background. I also think it was an insert in PC gamer or something. I can't remember the name for the life of me, and I was wondering if anyone knew what I was talking about.

On November 30 2008 02:33 Yuljan wrote:
Im searching for a game too. You have a helicopter and fly up and down and shoot things. Sorry for this description if anyone knows it it would be helpful. Its a flash game I think.

On November 30 2008 03:55 travis wrote:
for the longest time ive been trying to remember a game, but my memories of it are so very, very limited.

it was an old game, for the regular nintendo. I think you were a kid in the game (i am not sure). it was a side scroller. you had a ton of different abilities you could use, or maybe you were transforming into things. one of the abilities/transformations involved a tornado.

I know that is almost nothing to go off of, so good luck.

On December 01 2008 12:11 capek wrote:
Game for SNES:
It was a fighting game but the characters were all dinosaurs and other big animals (there was a King Kong like character). I remember there was this cobra-looking dinosaur named "Vertigo" that could teleport and another was a fire-breathing T-Rex. The more you win, the more worshipers you had on the bottom of the screen that started bowing down to you.

On December 01 2008 12:11 capek wrote:
Game for SNES:
It was a fighting game but the characters were all dinosaurs and other big animals (there was a King Kong like character). I remember there was this cobra-looking dinosaur named "Vertigo" that could teleport and another was a fire-breathing T-Rex. The more you win, the more worshipers you had on the bottom of the screen that started bowing down to you.

On December 01 2008 10:54 Railxp wrote:
There was a really old japanese sidescroller/platformer that involved a bald monk kid running around smashing stuff with his forehead and would turn into some fire breathing godzilla thing once you eat power ups. I THINK it was on the SNES, and i played it on JAL airlines a long time ago.

On December 01 2008 10:38 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:
I'm looking for this side-scrolling (as in horizontal) space shooter PC game from the mid-nineties. It ran in DOS, I think. You could choose between a red spread shot and a blue concentrated shot, you could get little orbiting satellite things, and you could buy upgrades and stuff, I think. The ships had a sort of beveled look to them, and the levels were set on a black space-and-stars background. I also think it was an insert in PC gamer or something. I can't remember the name for the life of me, and I was wondering if anyone knew what I was talking about.

On November 30 2008 02:33 Yuljan wrote:
Im searching for a game too. You have a helicopter and fly up and down and shoot things. Sorry for this description if anyone knows it it would be helpful. Its a flash game I think.

On December 01 2008 15:37 MayorITC wrote:
It was a turn based strategy game (PC) that I played over a decade ago. You started out with a castle and basically you had to capture other castles. There were also neutral castles throughout the map that any side could capture. Also each side started out with a main hero I think.

And I don't remember too much else about it =(

Was quite some time ago.

Edit: Depending when I played it, it might have been for Mac actually.

On December 01 2008 14:47 conCentrate9 wrote:


This sounds like stargun or stargunner to me.

On December 01 2008 20:59 Elgar wrote:
There was a chess like game I used to play except it had a twist. On one side it had what seemed to be the "good" side or something, with the other side being more "evil" and what not. What was different was that you moved the pieces like regular chess pieces, but when you go to capture one of the other pieces a sub game appears in where the two pieces battle it out and you control them. The two pieces have two attacks and the goal is to bring their health down to zero, obviously. Pieces from what I remembered went like pawns being footmen/grunts, some sort of caster as the bishops, I know the evil side had a dragon or two....don't remember much more. I do remember the casters being able to summon elementals or something like that onto the board to battle. Anything else is lost in my memory. Oh yes, the evil side had some sort of shape shifter as well that became the mirror image of whatever piece it was battling.

On December 01 2008 18:48 SweeTLemonS[TPR] wrote:
This was for the NES. You were a knight, and your country was at war with another country or something. You had to bombard the gates of a castle to get inside, and once inside you had to sword fight another character.

On December 01 2008 00:03 Essence wrote:
Well, I will give this thread a shot, I haven't been able to find this game for a decade now.

It was a soccer game for some sort of Nintendo IIRC where you could only play as Japan. You controlled one guy the rest was on AI. Each of your players as well the opposing teams had a special super shot, like transforming the ball into something. The whole game was really cartoonish with all sorts of funny stuff (on certain fields lightning would randomly strike players, or a tornado blow them off the field, or idle players sinking in the mud etc.)

The game consisted of 2 phases, first you could play 4 teams of each 4 regions (something like Asia, Africa, America, Europe) and if you have won enough games, you got to the world cup.

Could somebody help me find it? I used to have this game on a console thing but it doesn't work anymore.

On December 01 2008 22:33 stenole wrote:

Sounds like Warlords 1 or 2, but your description also fits Heroes of might and magic and age of wonders series.

On December 02 2008 03:34 MyTHicaL wrote:
ok my q isnt exactly what this thread was intended for but does any1 know where i can dl the original prince of persia game? THE ORIGINAL ie the 1 in MS-DOS i played that when i was like 5, at the end of every level there was a sultan boss guy that u had to duel etc... i think it was pricne of persia im almost certain it was, and that it was on a floppy xd;:

On December 01 2008 20:59 Elgar wrote:
There was a chess like game I used to play except it had a twist. On one side it had what seemed to be the "good" side or something, with the other side being more "evil" and what not. What was different was that you moved the pieces like regular chess pieces, but when you go to capture one of the other pieces a sub game appears in where the two pieces battle it out and you control them. The two pieces have two attacks and the goal is to bring their health down to zero, obviously. Pieces from what I remembered went like pawns being footmen/grunts, some sort of caster as the bishops, I know the evil side had a dragon or two....don't remember much more. I do remember the casters being able to summon elementals or something like that onto the board to battle. Anything else is lost in my memory. Oh yes, the evil side had some sort of shape shifter as well that became the mirror image of whatever piece it was battling.

On December 02 2008 06:49 Flakes wrote:
Don't remember the platform, but I saw someone playing this top-down scrolling space shooter in some japanese game store. Your ship had "light" and "dark" modes. Dark enemies could only be killed while in light mode and vice versa, while your ship was immune to dark shots while in dark mode and vice versa.

On December 02 2008 07:05 Empyrean wrote:
Also anyone remember nanosaur/bugdom? Fucking own.

On December 02 2008 09:06 TonyL2 wrote:
This is probably a tough one, but I remember an old PC FPS game that was around early to mid 90s

I just remember it was killing people in a building, I think they were aliens and it was a bit like Duke Nukem 3D/Half Life, the look of it

I think it began with a "B" maybe "Brain" or "Body"

On December 02 2008 04:44 SirTea wrote:


Definitely Archon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6MoTUJiOiU

I played it for the NES with my friend all the time. I used to know all of the characters appearing noises.

On December 02 2008 20:35 Elgar wrote:



Negative, it wasn't Archon. Different game, I played it on the PC.

On December 01 2008 10:54 Railxp wrote:
There was a really old japanese sidescroller/platformer that involved a bald monk kid running around smashing stuff with his forehead and would turn into some fire breathing godzilla thing once you eat power ups. I THINK it was on the SNES, and i played it on JAL airlines a long time ago.

On December 02 2008 21:12 aseq wrote:
Okay, i got one:

A puzzle game, with a top-down view of a level. There were a number of colored fur balls which you had to roll around, each had to make it onto some kind of beacon. Once you rolled them into one of 4 directions it wouldn't stop until hitting a wall or some other doodad. New elements such as portals, doors, arrows which forced direction and stuff like that was introduced every 10 levels (a cool image appeared too). There were 100 or 110 levels in total. I played this on the amiga 500, but i don't know what it was ported from.

On December 02 2008 22:44 Delvin wrote:

The Tinies. I've got this on a "5 of the best" Kalisto compilation cd for PC.

On December 02 2008 11:44 QuietIdiot wrote:
It was a 3D windows 98ish game involving a transforming blue robot in the middle of a cityscape with regular intercom communication with some 3x3 still pictures every so often with live acted voices.
It was a 3rd person shooter I think, but I could transform into a fast moving ground vehicle of some kind as well. 3rd person shooter. Not anime, very 90s comic-bish.

Also another game, a 1st person shooter that involved a futuristic space scenario and some of the weapons you carried was a voodoo doll, and you could kill people with it when angled correctly. Some other weapons you could kind of zap or burn people with in a very shamanistic way. Others seemed like conventional weapons, 3d, half-life graphics I think.

On December 02 2008 07:19 Archaic wrote:
This one game ages ago:
You were basically in space, and the galaxy/universe/solar system thing was a bunch of hexagonal parts. There were a bunch of random planets, and you could send transport ships to them and try to inhabit them. There were like... 5 races, and you could upgrade ships, and build a fleet. Then aliens would come and you could attack them. You would fight in lines. i.e. Your ships are vertically lined on the left, theirs on the right.

Anyone have any ideas?



OMG. These games were pure ownage! Ahh, nostalgia is great.


EDIT: Another game:
It is similar to stratego, but it had like... elephants, and other things It was very similar to chess, actually. The only difference was each unit had a power level (none >9000), ranging 1-9
It worked like: 1>9>8>7>6>5>4>3>2>1.
It had little river sections though, and it was really fun.

NOTE: Both of these games were on the mac.

On December 02 2008 07:05 Empyrean wrote:
Ok. This is back in those old school macs I think. Before even powermacs were out. We only had a demo of it on the shitty computer we had (though strangely, our classroom also had two iMacs. The old kind with the colored plastic).

It was sort of a turn based strategy game about the body and diseases. You chose what side you played on, and every turn you got a certain number of "units" to place wherever you want and you could attack things. If you played as the human you got to make choices like what to eat, etc., and you got units like B-cells, T-cells, etc. If you played as the diseases (and trust me, every single fourth grader chose this option) you got units to deploy and stuff. The demo always ended once you got the conjunctivitis unit, which sucks because it had 60 attack and it was so much stronger than anything else in the demo.

Also anyone remember nanosaur/bugdom? Fucking own.

On December 03 2008 02:43 pokerface wrote:


Im almost 100% sure that ur talking about one of my favorite game all time:Masters of Orion 1-2.

On December 02 2008 09:06 TonyL2 wrote:
This is probably a tough one, but I remember an old PC FPS game that was around early to mid 90s

I just remember it was killing people in a building, I think they were aliens and it was a bit like Duke Nukem 3D/Half Life, the look of it

I think it began with a "B" maybe "Brain" or "Body"

On December 01 2008 21:29 brambolius wrote:


defender of the crown?

On December 02 2008 11:44 QuietIdiot wrote:

Also another game, a 1st person shooter that involved a futuristic space scenario and some of the weapons you carried was a voodoo doll, and you could kill people with it when angled correctly. Some other weapons you could kind of zap or burn people with in a very shamanistic way. Others seemed like conventional weapons, 3d, half-life graphics I think.

On December 03 2008 02:37 pokerface wrote:


Maybe the Blood series? I remember this was the fps where u could kill your enemies with voodoo doll and stuff.

On December 02 2008 11:44 QuietIdiot wrote:
It was a 3D windows 98ish game involving a transforming blue robot in the middle of a cityscape with regular intercom communication with some 3x3 still pictures every so often with live acted voices.
It was a 3rd person shooter I think, but I could transform into a fast moving ground vehicle of some kind as well. 3rd person shooter. Not anime, very 90s comic-bish.

On December 14 2008 04:42 uNiGNoRe wrote:
I'm currently searching for the name of an old RTS PC game I played like 10 years ago. It was somewhat similar to Command & Conquer (I played both game at the same time), but I think it was pretty unknown. It had a 2D engine as well.
It had a sci-fi setting, I think it was supposed to be on earth a few 100 years in the future. During the game you could manually "assemble" the units you wanted to produce with your factories. For example you could choose wheels for your tanks instead of tracks or a flamethrower instead of a cannon and other stuff. You could build ships as well, iirc.
I thought the name was something with "Europe" or "Europa" but I'm not sure. I searched for about 1h already but I couldn't find anything.

On December 14 2008 06:17 johanes wrote:


One of these?: Earth 2140, Warzone 2100, Metal Fatigue

On December 14 2008 06:14 patrick321 wrote:
A long time ago a friend and i played a game on his computer that i've been looking for. It was a side view puzzle where each stage was filled with orange boulders stacked on top of each other across the map and i think the object was for your little character to push the boulders so that they would all fall down without crushing you. The boulders were actually pretty small on the screen (1/4 inch on screen maybe) and i don't remember any stages spanning left to right. It came on one of those floppy disks that was actually floppy, if that helps.

On December 15 2008 05:46 Telemako wrote:


Boulder Dash aka Rockford?

On December 01 2008 10:22 thedeadhaji wrote:
great thread yo~

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I was wondering what game this is - Made around '90-'93'ish, although I'm sure there's many iterations of it. You clear level after level, where you try to get a ball from one part of screen to the other, by placing/constructing contraptions on the screen so that when you press "start", the ball starts to drop, rolls along your stuff you placed, or if you placed a spring it bounces, etc and the goal is to "design" the parts for the level so that the ball ends up @ the goal. I'm not sure if it was a ball but I remember that the object of the game was this design process of placing these thingies, and the only thing that makes sense would be a ball.

Think of it like a rudimentary physics simulator-ish thingy. It was pretty colorful iirc, reds and blues, yellows etc. I played it on the mac but I'm sure there was a PC version as well.

On December 15 2008 05:46 Telemako wrote:


Boulder Dash aka Rockford?

On December 15 2008 07:48 hiroxx wrote:
This is a game for playstation 1 and it was like an action-platformer type game, I don't remember much except there seemed to be 3 types of attack styles and they were coloured (Purple, Blue and Yellow possibly?)

One thing I do definitely remember is that the final boss battle was like a 3D chess board and it was really difficult

On November 04 2012 01:42 SweeTLemonS[TPR] wrote:
I need some help here. I'm looking for a horror game, which I have never played. The only thing I've seen is this clip from it. At least part of it takes place in a mansion, and you're in some basement and you turn on a generator and the whole mansion starts to shake and fall apart, and in general crazy shit starts to happen. I want to say it was made in the early 2000's, and if it wasn't the second game, there are at least two games in the series.

Shitty description, hopefully someone can make sense of it.

On November 04 2012 02:55 Al Bundy wrote:

Alone in the Dark 4?

On November 04 2012 03:50 liam33 wrote:
Looking for a 2d game made in the 90's or early 2000's that was called bonk brothers or something it was 2 player hotseat the objective was to hit the enemies from underneath they would flip over and then you would run into them had a lot of fun with it

On November 04 2012 03:10 plated.rawr wrote:
All right, here's one from my commodore 64 days.

I remember it being a one-screen game (no scrolling), with a top-down view. You could play co-op, and you would spawn in each your bottom left and right corner. There was kinda a maze somewhat pacman-style, with enemies roaming around that you were supposed to shoot. The maze started out blue, but the colors changed as you got through stages. Most stages had like a few mobs you had to kill to progress, and every so many stages, you'd get a boss stage with a super-fast, bigger version of the regular mob. THe only mobs I can recall right now are lions and flies. My pal and I called the game 'the lion game', but I got no clue what it was actually called.

Anyone remember that one?

On May 14 2013 07:56 Talin wrote:
Altitude?

They sponsored an ISL once if I remember correctly. Can't remember any other TL links/threads though.

On May 14 2013 08:07 enigmaticcam wrote:
I've been looking for an old DOS game for a long time. It was back in the shareware days when you had a CD full of half-completed games that you'd have to unlock to get the whole package.

It was a space shooter with a decent story. You could fly to other planets in a giant universe and upgrade technology/weapons. I remember being very frustrated because at one point during the missions, it would send you to a far away planet that would take like 15 minutes to get there, but then when you're almost there your ship would inexplicably blow up to some invisible barrier. That's all I really remember of it.

On May 14 2013 09:29 Mandalor wrote:
Okay I realize this will be a very, veeeeery tough one, but maybe some of you older guys out there will remember this, despite my shitty description of it (or lack thereof):
I'm looking for a C64 game (yeah, Commodore 64), an RPG, where you would wander around a pixelated map, searching for 3 keys (I think it was 3). The only other thing I remember was that, while you were doing that, you were fighting monsters (I think this was mostly, or completely, text-based) and sometimes random people would decide to join your army. I know this isn't much and I probably won't find this game ever again, but one can hope.

On May 14 2013 08:07 enigmaticcam wrote:
I've been looking for an old DOS game for a long time. It was back in the shareware days when you had a CD full of half-completed games that you'd have to unlock to get the whole package.

It was a space shooter with a decent story. You could fly to other planets in a giant universe and upgrade technology/weapons. I remember being very frustrated because at one point during the missions, it would send you to a far away planet that would take like 15 minutes to get there, but then when you're almost there your ship would inexplicably blow up to some invisible barrier. That's all I really remember of it.

On May 14 2013 08:38 Animzor wrote:


This sounds cool, I hope someone figures it out.

On May 14 2013 08:07 enigmaticcam wrote:
I've been looking for an old DOS game for a long time. It was back in the shareware days when you had a CD full of half-completed games that you'd have to unlock to get the whole package.

It was a space shooter with a decent story. You could fly to other planets in a giant universe and upgrade technology/weapons. I remember being very frustrated because at one point during the missions, it would send you to a far away planet that would take like 15 minutes to get there, but then when you're almost there your ship would inexplicably blow up to some invisible barrier. That's all I really remember of it.

On May 14 2013 20:40 deTwisj wrote:
I've got so many games I played when I was younger whose name I just can't remember for the life of me.

1) a DOS game where you play a commander and have to manage planets infrastructure and resources to build both a land and space army. You have to fly between planets to get the resources you need to build said army. Battles always started with a space battle where you have a lot of blips flying around on a radar to portray how the battle goes, but I don't remember you could issue any commands. The ground battles were more a left vs right side with tanks and rocket launchers. You also had to hire people to improve research/technology, fighting strength and infrastructure.

2) a DOS game where you manage a kingdom in a kind of fantasy setting. You have to invade neighbouring kingdoms in a turn based kind of game. Battles were played out in real time where you play a special hero that leads your army (like warrior, mage or archer). edit: not heroes of might and magic, that much I know; I think it's an older game.

3) a C64 fighting game (not international karate) where you have the option of playing a vs mode or a story mode. In the story mode you go around collecting scrolls while occasionally you would have to fight people (same way as vs mode) or dodge dogs/knives.

4) kind of fuzzy memories of a DOS game where you play a chess sort of game with demons and stuff.

On May 14 2013 22:06 Klosetmonkey wrote:
There is one game which i remember pretty decently except for the name. basically you play as a pirate cat who has to gather a bunch of diamonds which were stolen by dog pirates. the gameplay is sort of similar to 2d mario platformers where you get power ups, have to gather coins/money and get through the lvl where there usually is a boss at the end.

On May 14 2013 22:46 Zinnwaldite wrote:
I'm looking for a game i remember playing on PS back in the day.

Was a volleyball game with teams of two. I remember some of the teams were two football player, two punkers, and two army guys.. Was a fun game, as i remember it..

On May 14 2013 19:39 ]343[ wrote:


I once had such a CD with WarCraft I, Doom, and Descent on it... and some others that I forget D:

That being said... reminds me vaguely of Star Control II ("The Ur-Quan Masters"), but it doesn't sound quite right....

On May 15 2013 01:09 Dubzex wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kingdom

Maybe?

On May 15 2013 00:37 r.Evo wrote:
Ohhh, THIS thread could help me.

I'm looking for a Gameboy (not color) game, but I only remember very generic things about it. It was a RPG, the actual combat was turn based (similar to HoMM) and you slowly gathered multiple characters in your party. What made it unique was that you could mutate your characters, but I don't even remember how exactly that was played out.

I think the name started with a "B", but welp. ;;

On May 15 2013 01:31 SaetZero wrote:


final fantasy legends 3 maybe?

4 main characters thru the game, a 5th guest that rotates in, and you can feed meat/install parts after some fights to turn your party into monsters/robots?

On May 14 2013 21:39 Narg wrote:


Think I might have number 3 also, gotta think some more. But 4, maybe Archon? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon:_The_Light_and_the_Dark
Awesome game, also a remake can be found on steam
http://store.steampowered.com/app/65400

On May 14 2013 20:40 deTwisj wrote:

2) a DOS game where you manage a kingdom in a kind of fantasy setting. You have to invade neighbouring kingdoms in a turn based kind of game. Battles were played out in real time where you play a special hero that leads your army (like warrior, mage or archer). edit: not heroes of might and magic, that much I know; I think it's an older game.

On May 15 2013 01:54 The Fish wrote:
This is quite a long shot, but if there's a chance, I'll take it.

I'm looking for a ps1 game. I can't remember much about the gameplay, and I'm fairly certain the version I had played was only a demo on one of those sample discs. There was some kind of village near the shore / a beach that is suddenly attacked by monsters (around sunset iirc). The shore was to the south and the attack comes from the north. All I can remember after that is a fence, fighting, and lots of things burning. I'd guess the game would be released around 1994-1999. I've checked all the sample discs that I still have, but it's not among them.

On May 14 2013 19:26 HeatEXTEND wrote:


"Adventure" for the atari has you running around pixelated worlds looking for 3 keys, give that one a try :D

On May 15 2013 22:50 shadowravenn wrote:
Yo,

Played a FPS game in mid 90's about (I think). You had a massive variety of weapons. There is only 1 I remember specifically and it was this rocket launcher that shot a multitude of rockets and long range. There were hidden chambers as well all over the stages. This was a PC game. Don't want to throw people off, but for some reason the word "riot", or something with an "R" feels like it's linked to this game, dunno if it is at all or not, just a "feeling"...

I can't even remember if the A.I were "aliens" or "humans"... Think they were not of this world though ... Can't remember anything else about it, but that rocket launcher that shot multiple rockets at targets was epic! I THINK there was some kind of flamethrower as well.

A lot of the game takes place "in open air" too afai-can remember.

GL with this one...

Shadow

On November 30 2008 10:30 PanoRaMa wrote:
Can anyone help me with these?

Two games from genesis:

1: A 2-player co-op game wherein there were a lot of bosses, the final boss iirc had an 8-pack and on the way to him you would like fly upwards/vertically. Protagonists were humans iirc, and I THINK you could have a variety of guns i'm really not sure about anything. It was really contra-like in gameplay, I guess it could be contra but i think the actual contextual setting of this game is a bit different. OH YEAH there was a dragon that was made up of many parts and youd have to shoot his head to damage him but he'd constantly go underneath the screen etc (kinda like underwater sea dragon enemy in megaman). sorry for my shitty description

On May 16 2013 01:06 Zorkmid wrote:


Rise of the Triad?

On May 15 2013 22:35 ShloobeR wrote:
Let me give this a go :

I remember playing an old DOS game from a 2000+ games shareware CD I had a while ago. The game was called something like 'Warriors of ______' or 'Knights of ______', it was a sidescrolling beat em up which featured all different kinds of mythical characters, there were giant eyes, animals, human warriors, wizards, all kinds of things.
Anyway the game mode I remember playing most was this sort of Battle Royale mode where you had 64 competitors (There were a LOT Of different characters, but I'm not sure if they were different aside from the aesthetics), and you had about 8 guys on the screen at the same time, when one guy died another one would take his place.

I have been searching for this game for like... 15 years.

On May 16 2013 16:23 TotallyLost wrote:
Good day!

I'm looking for a game from my childhood which I can't remember the name of. It was mid 90's when I played the game.

I remember the story being very Zelda like (though it was a pc game). It started you of in a town where a princess was turned to stone. You were then to enter dungeons and find yourself loot/other area's to lift the curse. It was a 2d game where, as said, you had to explore dungeons to find keys/gear and venture to other towns where you could buy swords/shields etc.

It had a really nice art style too (atleast as far as i remember). It was an old floppy game.

Thanks in advance!

On May 20 2013 09:58 slyboogie wrote:
1. It's on the SNES
2. It's a Ninja RPG
3. You're village gets destroyed
4. You wander around the world and you meet other ninjas that you can fight or recruit
5. That's all I remember

On May 20 2013 10:31 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:

Possibly Goemon?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goemon_(series)

The SNES version was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_the_Mystical_Ninja

On May 20 2013 09:45 renlynn wrote:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeliard ?

On May 20 2013 09:58 slyboogie wrote:
1. It's on the SNES
2. It's a Ninja RPG
3. You're village gets destroyed
4. You wander around the world and you meet other ninjas that you can fight or recruit
5. That's all I remember

On September 22 2013 17:00 Evil_Monkey_ wrote:
Hi Guys, I really need help finding a pc game from 23 years ago. It was a kind of a rogue like game like dungeon crawl stone soup and was extremely difficult (I seem to recall there was perma death no saves, not 100% sure about it though). The thing I remember most clearly was the graphics were very stoneage nothing compared to dungeon crawl's and I remember getting owned completely as soon as I encountered wraiths who would drain me and cause lvl death. I also often died early to snakes and spiders on the upper levels. Please halpmeh..........it's a question that has plagued me for years, back then my father formatted the computer as he used it for work, have been searching ever since.